Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor: Initiatic and Historical Documents of an Order of Practical Occultism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780877288381)

The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, active in the last decades of the 19th century, was the only order of its time that taught practical occultism in the Western Mystery Tradition. This is the first complete and undistorted account, tracing the origins, founders, and practices of this very secretive order, which counted among its members many of the wellknown figures of late 19thcentury occultism, spiritualism, and Theosophy, including Max Theon, Peter Davidson, Thomas Henry Burgoyne and Paschal Beverly Randolph. This scholarly work provides all the materials for revisioning the history, assigning the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor its rightful place as one of the most influential esoteric orders of its time.

Author: Joscelyn Godwin
ISBN-10: 0877288380
ISBN-13: 9780877288381
Publisher: Weiser Books
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2005
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.02d

About the Author
Joscelyn Godwin is a composer, musicologist and translator, known for his work on ancient music, paganism and music in the occult. He is the author of the first complete English language translation (1999) of one of the first illustrated printed texts, the incunabulum Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499). He teaches at Colgate University.